From: Shane <sh...@lo...> - 2005-03-03 22:25:56
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A skin is the equivlant of a 'section'. The skin kinda brings it all together, including the graphical-changes in appearance, if any, you'd want. So, to answer your questions: yes, a skin gives you distinct sets of articles - based on the skins.nexus. Since the nexus is a group of topics - any story posted w/ a topic that's in that nexus is shown in that skin. (well, depending on how you've arranged your topic parent/children and the topics-list in each story). I believe nexuses and skins are supposed to be 1-1, because you can only assign a single nexus to any one skin. A topic seems to only have topic-extras when it's marked as a nexus. So you'd have to mark your 'book reviews' topic as being a Nexus. But you don't necessarily have to associate a Nexus with a skin that I can see. So I think you're OK with what you want to do. Shane On Mar 3, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Gaulin, Mark wrote: > Hi Shane > I don't think I want the topic to be a skin, but that may be because I > don't know what a skin is for. Looking at the skins table definition, > it seems that you want a skin if you want to have a different host > name, indexhandler, and I'm not sure, but does it also give you a > distinct set of articles on the "home" page (for that host name)? I > don't want any of those things for this topic/nexus (called Book > Reviews), I just want to have topic_nexus_extras that are different > than the Main Page (it's parent topic). > > Are nexuses and skins always supposed to be 1-to-1? I would think > not, but that could be part of my problem. > > Thanks > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane [mailto:sh...@lo...] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:28 PM > To: Gaulin, Mark > Cc: sla...@li... > Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] Side effects of making a topic a > nexus? > > > > On Mar 3, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Gaulin, Mark wrote: > >> Hi >> In order to get unique "extras" (from topic_nexus_extras) for a topic >> I have, it looks like I need to convert the topic to a nexus, which >> could be as simple as checking the Nexus box on the Topics Editor >> page. So far so good. My question is, will anything else change for >> that topic, assuming I don't change anything else? >> >> Thanks >> Mark > > I don't think so. Just realize that making it a nexus doesn't > necessarily make it a skin, if that's what you're going after. > > Shane > > > -- http://shane.lottadot.com/ |